The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No. 21) Order 2008

Made: 3rd June 2008

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 336(3) and (4) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003¹, makes the following Order:

Citation and interpretation

1

• (1) This Order may be cited as the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No. 21) Order 2008.

• (2) In this Order “the 2003 Act” means the Criminal Justice Act 2003.

Commencement

2

Section 29(1) to (3), (5) and (6) (new method of instituting proceedings) and section 30 (further provision about the new method) of the 2003 Act come into force on 9th June 2008 for the purposes specified in article 3.

3

The purposes referred to in article 2 are the purposes of criminal proceedings instituted by a public prosecutor within the meaning of section 29(5)(a) of the 2003 Act (a police force or a person authorised by a police force to institute criminal proceedings), in a magistrates’ court sitting in one of the following locations:

• (a) Chester;

• (b) Crewe;

• (c) Macclesfield;

• (d) Northwich;

• (e) Runcorn;

• (f) Warrington; and

• (g) Widnes.

Signed

Maria Eagle — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State — 3rd June 2008

Ministry of Justice

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order brings into force the provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (“the 2003 Act”) specified in article 2, for the purposes of the criminal proceedings specified in article 3, with effect from 9th June 2008.

The effect of the Order is that a police force, or a person authorised by a police force to institute criminal proceedings, may, under section 29 of the 2003 Act, institute criminal proceedings by issuing a written charge and requisition in a magistrates’ court sitting in any of the locations specified in article 3.

The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No. 16) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1999) gave effect to the same provisions in the 2003 Act in relation to proceedings instituted in certain other magistrates’ courts.

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